Should kidney donors receive tax incentives for donating to strangers? Boston 25 News [Video]

HULL, Mass. — After watching a morning news segment on a married couple who each donated a kidney to a stranger, Jodi Elliott was inspired and within three days had begun testing to become a living kidney donor.

Elliott, 57, of Hull, donated her left kidney in February to a complete stranger and the next day returned home. Within days she was cooking for herself and working from home. Three weeks later, she was fully back to work at her business, Mosquito Joe of Braintree-Weymouth.

“We had to have my surgery early in the morning because my kidney had a plane ticket to go somewhere. I don’t know where it went, but that’s all I know,” Elliott said. “To be able to do something and have such a positive impact on another human being, it’s just overwhelming.”

Elliott documented each step of her journey on TikTok from testing to the …